Because like writing this exact comment its not really doing anything. I'm not accomplishing goals reading your reply, I'm not really forming a connection with

Because like writing this exact comment its not really doing anything. I'm not accomplishing goals reading your reply, I'm not really forming a connection with you or anyone else on these type of sites. Once you use them for a few years you start just seeing the trend of the front page coming before you even get to it, and it just turns into a positive feedback loop for the belief system you adopted from the subreddits / HN you visit. I should be working on a CSS grid layout I've been fighting with all week but instead I'm checking comments on HN. Fortunately I've gone from doing it four times a day to about two - in both cases, while im eating - but nobody needs to be "informed" every single day. You'll pick up the stuff that really matters even if you wade out of the stream for a while.